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*TOP REVIEWER* rasputin2 on 4/21/2013 8:06:00 AM more reviews by rasputin2

Age: 44-55   Skin: Combination, Medium   Hair: Silver   Eyes: Green    

Nose: Antoine Lie. aldehydic/marine/animalic. Full disclosure: I love this fragrance, and am going on a second bottle. I happen to think it's an amazing, innovative smell... totally new. I really don't get the smell of semen (we'll leave *that* to the revolting "almondy" spooge note in men's COOL WATER... Now THAT'S a repulsive no-lippie scent). I get the scorch of clean starch on white linen... and a milk/metal smell, charmingly homely, that reminds me of nothing so much as a toddler's long-abandoned bowl of half-eaten LUCKY CHARMS, metal spoon having leached in the tepid milk all day. Or maybe of the farm smell of fresh cow's milk being squirted, warm, into a zinc pail. I think SM makes a great spring and summer daytime scent, surely unisex, as it dries down to a faintly milky-sweet, linen-like musk. Once you get the smell of this fragrance in your nostrils, you'll never forget it. It does look like the pricetag has doubled since I first bought it new in 1998.

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*TOP REVIEWER* yoyocanary on 2/13/2013 7:42:00 AM more reviews by yoyocanary

Age: 19-24   Skin: Very Dry, Fair, Warm   Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Fine   Eyes: Green    

When I smell this, I smell a wet dog. If I apply it to my skin, it morphs into wet dog smell plus something really nauseating.
I had a lot of people smell this, and they all agreed that it smelled a bit like wet dog.
That said, I would say I can pick up on the "sweat" scent and the metallic, "blood" scent, but that's all.
All of that said, I can also smell something really soft and floral in it, so I imagine this would be an amazing fragrance on some people, just not me.
Buy a sample or find a place to smell it before purchasing full size because it's very expensive, and it's such a unique fragrance.
And I would never, ever purchase this again.

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puddinhed on 2/6/2013 7:22:00 PM more reviews by puddinhed

Age: 36-43   Skin: Normal   Hair: Brown   Eyes: Brown    

Not what I expected at all. I wouldn't say it stinks, but it's something you don't want to smell either. Every sniff sent a flash of something evil, bad, and disturbing behind my eyes. It's an odd sensation. I would never wear this out, or even for longer than ten minutes. I might try it again out of morbid curiosity, though. Just like watching a horror film for entertainment.

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Luiza16 on 1/12/2013 5:00:00 PM more reviews by Luiza16

Age: 30-35   Skin: Other, Medium   Hair: Brunette   Eyes: Hazel    

Metallic smell that brings sense of uneasiness...
Not as bad as some say but you won't catch me wearing it on my next night out ;-)
1 lippy for originality

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*TOP REVIEWER* cocorocha on 6/29/2012 8:42:00 AM more reviews by cocorocha

Age: 30-35   Skin: Combination, Fair, Warm   Hair: Blond, Straight, Fine   Eyes: Brown    

if you think that a perfume can't really re-create a materialistic emotional impression and make you affraid of what you've just experienced just by taking a whiff, try SM....
this is a real S/M perfume...smell...scent...stench....
I was so impressed when I got the chance to sniff it because I expected a ''normal kind of bad smell''...you know- something familliar, almost disgustingly innocent, reeking of familliar smelly stuff- socks, dirty loundry, ammonia, sulphur, rotten eggs, sh*t,.....ya know...the 'easy stuff...
BUT NO...
this is my dear people smell of despair, fear, agony, torture, rotten flesh,martyrs....very emotional scent of all the bad things you've ever experienced in your life...

I bow to the very fear that this one single whiff did to my inner emotional dimension, but as a perfume, as a scent that you like to wear, a scent that you'd be glad to let someone sense on you- this is a true death...void.....abyss....nothingness....

the weirdest thing I've ever smelled in my life...and god forbid if I ever smell it again!!

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*TOP REVIEWER* thespacecowgirl on 6/16/2012 9:20:00 AM more reviews by thespacecowgirl

Age: 25-29   Skin: Sensitive, Fair, Warm   Hair: Brunette, Straight, Fine   Eyes: Green    

Like many others, I was intrigued by the horrified first responses to this fragrance. Though I wanted to try it for that sort of entertainment value alone, I usually dislike the sharp astringency of so-called "marine" fragrances, so I was just as wary of that as I was the gag reflex triggering et. al. For me, however, this is a really nice scent with very bad PR. In the vial, it's a strong, salty/true oceanic, slightly metallic men's cologne scent. It's quite synthetic smelling yet seductive, in the manner of Gucci Rush (my all-time-favorite fragrance). The oceanic scent bears nothing in common with the nasty, sharp, fake "marine" fragrances flooding the market - it really smells like clean sea air. As the scent dries down, it loses the metallic note and becomes warmer and less masculine; for a while it seems to be truly a unisex scent. There are occasional hints of (clean) sterile gauze on superficial whiff, but inhaling the scent more deeply brings out the full warm ocean scent, which reminds me of swimming in the ocean and then letting my hair dry in the sun. The final drydown several hours later seems more masculine, though not unfitting for a woman comfortable with a little gender bending; it's only now that I can smell a faint hint of semen. To be crude, this is how I'd imagine smelling after having pornographic sex with a clean (and rich) man. I'm a very sexual person, so I adore it. I'm interested to try layering it with some other scents, so for that reason I really hope it smells as pleasant to other people as it does to me - my grandmother (usual scent BBW Moonlight Path) found it inoffensive, so I have hope. The fragrance stays very close to my skin, but the lasting power is pretty nuts - I can still smell it after most of 2 days! EDIT: I have fallen completely in love with this fragrance. It smells so warm and sexy and clean yet naughty on me at the same time. I think this could be my signature scent if I could afford a bottle.

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*TOP REVIEWER* yum_yum on 5/9/2012 2:44:00 PM more reviews by yum_yum

Age: 36-43   Skin: Other   Hair: Other   Eyes: Other    

This is a horrible, sick joke by a demented, bastard-clown. It smells of fish, metal and something milky. Jesus wept. If I didn't love Clive Barker's Cenobites so much, I'd scent them with this. Seriously. Douse Pinhead with this sh*t. Ack, ack, ack. I have no sensible analysis of this because I gagged. I never gag. I have virtually no gag reflex. (Too much information). I've used everything from Fairy liquid to probiotic cleanser to get this stuff off my hand, but noooo. It lives! I might have to lose the wretched hand. I hate said hand now, any way. &who needs two hands if one of them smells like this. Pennywise in the gutter, yo. They aall float down here, Georgie! This is Pennywise's stash of child corpses. Stephen King: you need to smell this before you write your 2000-4000 words a day. You will *never* recover. You too, Joe Hill. No amount of your precious AC/DC will save you from this. (Clive might recover. He'd probably base a character on it).
This isn't perfume. It's made by a sicko in a dungeon basement. He collects hair-dolls from stolen hairbrushes and hoards thrown-out baby teeth. He has major parental issues and thinks having a bowel movement and masturbating should be simultaneous. He wears a necklace of ferret guts and has the personality of a human toilet. The over-spilling chemical kind. He steals bunnies, names them after Third World dictators or movie stars and then executes them with blunt cutlery. He stores hacked off noses in filthy demijohns. Hey, he figures it's a lifestyle.
The resilience of the blasted menace! Oh, it's pesky!! Like scenes depicting 'the stamina of evil' from traditional horror movies: You kill Michael Myers, turn your back, Myers gets up...and walks after you slowly, with that mask on (which some people claim is actually a Star Trek William Shatner mask, painted white-who knows if this is true). Dismember a zombie with a machete, turn your back, it falls apart but crawls after you on its festering stumps. Thwart the killer in Scream, turn your back, killer rises. You think you've killed the Alien, but it sneaks onto the ship & requires extermination. Again. That Japanese kid with the hair all over her face? Yeah, she's back, comin' atchu from the TV. You think you've disabled Annie Wilkes with a nifty head injury, yet she lurches after you. Take Damien all the way to the church and try and kill him with the special knives. But guess what? The little bugger's not going anywhere. You think a double-tap will suffice BUT jaded audiences expect it -so you go with the triple or quadruple tap. And you're STILL not sure it's dead. This is post Saw, post Roth, post anything I can think of. I'm not a religious person, but...if I prayed, Mary Mother of Christ : will it go away?!! Probably not.Why did you do this ELdO?
If you pay for this, you have too much money OR a really funny idea of what smells good -& I kind of respect that, but don't want to know you. This isn't skank. It's not semen. It's not breast milk (okay, I don't really remember what that smells like,but I'm going to ask my lactating friend if breast milk smells vile). It's certainly not vagina. Not mine any way. And like all the monsters, in every single horror. It. Won't.Budge. No. Ack. ACK. Katie Puckrick- I should have listened to youuu. I shouldn't have tried it. FISH & METAL & GROSS-OUT MILK STUFF FROM HELL!
Imagine you're David Koresh. SM's lasting power has the same effect as the FBI playing Nancy Sinatra on loop to drive you insane. Regardless of whether you deserved it, it's a tough ride.
I read interviews with Neil Young (and saw a documentary) where he said Charlie Manson was well known, in the music scene at the time, as a great guitarist. He said Charlie was good. But no one could play with him, or work with him, because he 'had an intense energy'. I think this is Neil's nice, Canadian way of saying, 'Yeah, Charlie was barking mad. He was howling mad. He was a whole bowl of UN-SANE." (Apparently he went totally mad after he couldn't get a record deal. Hey, that's what the interviews with his former 'peers' say, don't look at me for answers). This is like Charlie Manson. No matter how 'good' or 'innovative' the technique, people can't stick around long enough to appreciate it. Just as well, because if Secretions Magnifique turned out to be like Charlie...well...we know what happened.
Agent Orange. Ebola. Chemical warfare wielded by a peculiar weirdo (Trashcan Man, maybe? Although he had a nuke, right? And he looked *better* than this smells), Death by Fish and Effluent. Horrible, horrible thing. I have no more words. And yet cannot stop writing. It...hurts me.
I know fear. I know terror. You've won. I've lost. I'll do anything. ANYTHING! Let me go. I won't tell anyone. I haven't seen your face yet. It's not too late. I won't tell, I won't tell, I won't tell! You're a nice person, you don't want to do this. I know there's some good in you. You can end this. Please. I have a family. I'm young (ish). I can work for my freedom, work in your underground caves, as long as you DON'T DO THAT. I love you I love you I love you I take it all back because I looooove you! Nooo, I'm not lying so you won't hurt me. It's truuuuue. Pleeasepleeeasepleease! No, no, not the pointy stick and the pince-nez! Here, take all my clothes, my suitcase filled with my beloved Serge Lutens, my hair. Yes -- I'll even give you all my lovely hair -- you can make it into a wig or burn it or whatever. Drop me in an abandoned well somewhere and let me take my chances. Yes -- leave me with the deformed Appalachian hillbillies, it's better than this. I can grow to love their fun deformities. I'll even bear their cleft palate, club-footed babies. The sewer fluke in the X-Files -- sell me to him. I'll live there for eternity, in his watery embrace. No, nooo, don't DO that...not AGAIN....Gaaaaaaah!
*silence*
*sound of dial tone*
*sound of heavy, wet breathing*
*silence*

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*TOP REVIEWER* SNIFFMEALLOVER on 9/20/2011 5:19:00 AM more reviews by SNIFFMEALLOVER

Age: 25-29   Skin: Combination   Hair: Brown   Eyes: Blue    

Disgusting. Brings to mind the smell of blood and sweat. Why would anybody want to smell like this?? And pay real money for it??? Lasts forever. I could not wash it off my skin. Had to wash my clothes. I am getting rid of my sample. This is the only perfume ever that made me want to puke.
The only explanation I can see is that this is part of a marketing campaign "Let's create the most perverse and revolting fragrance that nobody in their right mind would wear and have every one talking about our brand". They probably had fits of laughter when they found out that Luca Turin actually gave them 5 stars.

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TeeTeeRarr on 8/10/2011 12:17:00 AM more reviews by TeeTeeRarr

Age: 25-29   Skin: Combination, Dark   Hair: Black, Kinky, Coarse   Eyes: Brown    

So I finally got to try SM. I may be in the minority unaffected by the hype and able to embrace the scent for what it is, I dunno. I do believe, after trying this, that the bad rep it has gotten is more a result of conformity than anything else. Perhaps due to what it is supposed to represent and a few bad reviews by esteemed reviewers, others are quick to reject it without giving it an unbiased testing. I do not find it vile in the least. There are scents that are FAR more disgusting which are surprisingly praised by many and I am willing to bet they got the thumbs up from some respected reviewers/bloggers too!


My low rating is because of me not SM. All you need do is look at my review history LOL. It is very hard for me to really like a fragrance so do not count this against SM. On first whiff, I smell what will soon become the death of the fragrance for me at least, a deep inky metallic note but it is yet to overcome the florals at this stage. As time goes by, this inky metallic note becomes a bully and possesses the scent. SM actually bears some similarities to Comme des Garcons Odeur 53 and 71 because of the metallic note. The difference is that CdG is easier on the nose due to the metallic note being fused with citrus to make for a less cloying and more bearable scent. I think on the right person, this is very wearable. Hey, if you like CdG and some other inky/ metallic scents, you just might like this..... or you just might genuinely hate it but whichever the case, this is a unique experience to be had.

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*TOP REVIEWER* tessture on 4/16/2011 4:15:00 PM more reviews by tessture

Age: 36-43   Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium   Hair: Brunette   Eyes: Brown    

I chickened and my first try was a tiny dot. It smelled at first like saltwater and clean musk, like the musk in Courtesan or The Infidel, so a nice and fairly tame musk. I liked this stage. Then a metallic sweat note showed up but very faintly and yeah, it suggests pelvis. I think a stronger application would definitely be nauseating. Doesn't scrub much, either, so exercise caution. I'm now a little afraid to try a stronger application because the suggestion of sickening dirty grossness is easily detected in this tiny pinpoint. I really don't know if I'm willing to be frightened into trying it again just to show I'm butch enough. I think I'll pass it on and admit I'm too wimpy to try it. Or too annoyed to care. It's fragrance, right? So why would I want to smell so bad people vomit when they get too close? Yeah. So off it goes.

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*TOP REVIEWER* AbsoluteScentualist on 2/11/2011 10:05:00 PM more reviews by AbsoluteScentualist

Age: 30-35   Skin: Combination   Hair: Black   Eyes: Hazel    

To me, this is not a wearable fragrance. It is an experience. Unfortunately, it is an experience I would not attempt again. The most mind-blowing part of it is that freshly dabbed on my skin, the blood note is so strong, unnerving, realistic and arresting that I actually flinched away from my hand in a practically primal response and all I could say is "Oh wow..." since I couldn't believe what I was smelling. Poor DH suspected nothing when I approached him with the test dab, but when he bent in to smell it, he actually recoiled with an "Oh my God what the hhell was that?" followed by lots of "Blech!" and "You know, you could have warned me!" Then he asked if it was called Last Date with a Vampire or Scent of a CSI Episode before backing away and cringing when I proffered my hand again.

The top notes are all strong metallic blood and hints of salty semen/ozone. I can smell flowers under there but it is a blood spattered bouquet from the morning after. Totally unappealing yet irresistably fascinating in a 'how did they manage to capture these smells so accurately?' sort of way. When I was able to approach the specimen again, I caught a hint of coconut and powdery iris in there, but had to admit defeat at this point and realize this unnerving experience would probably end up needing to be washed away.

Before I did so however, I found my nose creeping back toward my hand no matter how my stomach lurched or how much I tried to resist, just in the same way I try to encourage myself to develop a taste for foods, perfumes or even some books I can't seem to handle by repeated exposure in small amounts. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but I keep trying in the hopes of developing a tolerance or even appreciation. The process helped me learn to love Angel, add some tedious yet decent books to my library and encouraged more exploration in the kitchen or at exotic deateries.

Secretions Magnifique feels like the perfume equivalent of foods/dishes with the same forbidding reputation as hákarl or durian; foods that fascinate by their extremely off-putting nature but that are beloved essentials for many. I'm lucky to handle lots of mushrooms and parsnips in a meal and after trying Secretions Magnifique, I wonder if I just pushed my luck too far by diving into a dish of durian-stuffed hákarl.

Since I tend to like a lot of other perfumes known for their various unpleasant associations among some perfumistas like Boudoir (dirty gusset), Kingdom (perspiration after consuming lots of curry), Muscs Koublai Khan (the smell of a farmyard including manure), Musc Ravageur (more dirty panties/bodily fluids or parts), Courtesan (a wee bit of skank) and Amaranthine (lovingly called Amaranthighs for obvious reasons), I was absolutely overpowered and knew without a second chance that I simply can't wear this. I've met my match and tip my hat to Antoine Lie for the mad genius of this creation.

Fortunately, the bottle in question comes from the boxed set of miniatures available from Lucky Scent, so I'm sure I'll find more ELdOs to love aside from the handful I've previously tried (Vraie Blonde, Don't Get Me Wrong Baby, Like This and Divin'Enfant) that I like enough to consider for fb purchases. Secretions Magnifique, otoh, is going up for swap and hopefully to a home where her startling unpleasantness over shy florals can be appreciated.

Notes: Iode accord, adrenaline accord, blood accord, milk accord, iris, coconut, sandalwood and opoponax    

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*TOP REVIEWER* HelenVanPattersonPatton on 2/10/2011 3:48:00 PM more reviews by HelenVanPattersonPatton

Age: 30-35   Skin: Other   Hair: Other   Eyes: Other    

This scent starts out like a John Waters film...delightfully sickening and antagonistic. At this point, like with JW, the "audience" should have heard enough from others to know they're about to go on quite a trip. They should know someone may eat dog poo or some other great insanity may occur. Some hate John Waters and will choose not to participate, while others hop on in and say, "Let us journey forth into a world fraught with danger!" I hopped. I had to.
So here we are with Secretions Magnifiques. There's a sour metallic note that I can only compare to the way the inside of my mouth tastes the morning after a night of drinking, smoking and other antics that make me wish, upon waking, that I had stayed home and been a good girl. Then the bad part starts...yes, that's what I said. A disgusting ozonic note dropkicks you in the nostrils, and it isn't just any ozonic note: dead, rotting fish and seaweed on a sad, secluded beach.
So I'm testing this out while I sit on the couch next to my husband. I reach my wrist to his nose, as I so often do, and the poor, unsuspecting lug leans his head down to sniff what he probably expects to be some nice amber or lily. His reaction: "What the--? What is, what the, is that a PERFUME?!?" He doesn't care for it.
The thing is, a couple of hours later this scent smells really good! It's a skin scent, and the iris/milk/coconut/sandalwood blend beautifully. I couldn't convince my husband to smell it at that point, but I'm surprised and glad for the pretty drydown. I have to give this one five lippies because it's just so bizarre, and I love bizarre.

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chrystelica on 1/12/2011 11:42:00 AM more reviews by chrystelica

Age: 25-29   Skin: Dry, Fair, Warm   Hair: Brown, Straight, Fine   Eyes: Blue    

Don't entirely hate it, surprisingly. It is a masculine on me, actually an ozonic *clean* accord, amazingly.. but like there were some dirty people doing some dirty stuff in that shower just before I came in. Haha, get it. OK, so this is sort of middle schoolish, but...

I get a vivid mental image of this smouldering, sexy, super creepy/dangerous guy on an elevator at about 4 am and he's got this stalker face and smiling at me and the dread and attraction comes in at the same time. But it's not horrifying, fortunately or not. It's sort of exciting and yet repulsive at the same time. Would probably wear this again. The image of the cartoon penis ejaculating made me laugh pretty hard because I always drew those everywhere a few years ago. Now it's the logo of this perfume. Awesome.

I do smell the semen and menstrual blood, which is not fecal or fishy, layered over with a 'clean ozonic' men's cologne scent, but the semen and blood mixed together is so thick and metallic it feels as if I can actually taste it. I've been reading an ancient religious text lately which is all about consuming those things in a skull bowl and gives the instructions to "loll the tongue about with it, not giving rise to disgust." This scent captures that idea well, issuing a very vivid scent impression. I'd give it 5 stars for that, but it's starting to give me a headache and I'm not particularly in love with it. It sort of just makes me want to take a shower.

Later the milk accord comes in, followed by a drydown of that very effiminate ozonic men's cologne smell. A huge wave of peaceful lethargy seems to follow. I got a fortune cookie once that reads: "After the grand torment, then comes the tranquility." Never wore a perfume before besides this that seems to literally zap my energy, what little of it I already have; this is probably the last thing I need.

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*TOP REVIEWER* WentworthRoth on 12/7/2010 1:22:00 PM more reviews by WentworthRoth

Age: 25-29   Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Warm   Hair: Blond, Wavy, Medium   Eyes: Blue    

Notes: iodine, adrenaline, blood, milk, iris, coconut, sandalwood and opoponax.

This fragrance opens nondescriptly, metallic, sweetly on my skin. Once it settles I smell coconut with a metallic base which makes me wonder where the metallic note comes from. I associate this fragrance to sweet coconut cream which was left in the sun in a tin can. Underneath the coconut I smell a piercing flowery note. Whilst unpleasant and very strong, I do not associate this fragrance with blood, semen, vomit etc. After three hours on my skin the coconut note has disappeared and I smell a warm, aromatic, woody note which reminds me of sweat on a sun-kissed skin. I do not mind this stage of the fragrance’s development. Once the fragrance has reached this stage, it does not change anymore. What could have been an interesting attempt to evoke images of human secretions failed, because what I first smelled must definitely not have been what the perfumer had in mind when he created this fragrance. Lasts for more than 6 hours on my skin.

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Cinamorrol on 10/21/2010 3:41:00 PM more reviews by Cinamorrol

Age: 25-29   Skin: Combination, Fair, Cool   Hair: Blond, Straight, Medium   Eyes: Blue    

I was actually sweating when I tried this. Actually sweating with terror. I've got to be honest, I'm quite disappointed! It's not unpleasant. Nor is it particularly pleasant - I don't think -...but it is interesting. I've had it on my arm for about 15 minutes now. It is completely unlike any perfume I have smelled before. It smells like a tangerine to me. Not like, tangerine notes in Britney perfumes or anything, like, the inside of an actual orange. I let my Mum smell it, and she said it was quite nice! Once I told her what it was she said it was making her sick. I think quite a lot about this perfume rides on your preconceptions. If you expect to smell something, then you will probably smell it. Having said that, I have washed it off and I don't think I would wear it. Interesting scent though.

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*TOP REVIEWER* blueelm on 9/17/2010 5:05:00 PM more reviews by blueelm

Age: 25-29   Skin: Other   Hair: Other   Eyes: Other    

I think this is quickly becoming my favorite perfume house. I've been entranced with this scent all day, which of course means the lasting power is superb.

At first, I'll be honest, this scent almost made me retch. It truly smells of things which perfume is traditionally hides, saliva and sperm, sweat, salt, pungent blood and musk. It's really dirty!

It's sickening because it's also strangely floral and so it lures you into smelling it again, only to be confused and repulsed.

But as it warms on the skin it becomes softer, more beautiful. This dries down to a soft floral musk, and one of the nicest most sensual skin musks I have in my collection.

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whitecountess on 7/26/2010 10:34:00 PM more reviews by whitecountess

Age: 36-43   Skin: Combination, Fair   Hair: Brunette   Eyes: Blue    

Five stars for being utterly Fascinating.
Nothing the other reviewers have said is incorrect, the fragrance does have a kind of human protein plus metallic smell at the first spray. Most perfumes try for something fantastic and end up being merely mediocre. Secretions Magnifiques knows EXACTLY what it's doing! In the dry-down, the 'secretion' aspect fades and the scent becomes gently floral. It starts to smell better and better and better. I don't know if I would have the courage to wear this outdoors, but I do have the strange feeling that it would make you incredibly attractive to others. I will report back!

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*TOP REVIEWER* suzi2qs on 6/21/2010 6:49:00 PM more reviews by suzi2qs

Age: 44-55   Skin: Combination, Medium, Warm   Hair: Blond, Coarse   Eyes: Green    

This fragrance did not gag or offend me, I did not find it shocking but I didn't like it. On me I got nothing that smelled much like blood or semen or skank. None of the stated notes stood out to me. What it reminded me of is the taste I used to get in my mouth after a night of drinking heavily, literally, to me, it smelled like a hangover. Maybe it is genius in a pretzel logic kind of way, but want to smell good, not hungover.

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Annaxxx on 6/20/2010 11:21:00 AM more reviews by Annaxxx

Age: 30-35   Skin: Combination, Fair, Cool   Hair: Blond, Straight, Medium   Eyes: Blue    

This actually made me vomit! No joke! I got a few samples from Les Scenteurs in the post and tried this first -a tiny dab on wrist...I took a sniff and vomited!!! I couldn't wait to wash it off but it wouldn't come off!!! I scrubbed and scrubbed and after an hour or so I got a waft again and gagged! Itsmells like a dead corpse from a very dirty harbor with some week old 'secretions' on it. The smell of metal also put my teeth on edge YUCK!!!!

Bizarrely the staying power was immense - I cant say that for Putain des Palais alas :(

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*TOP REVIEWER* hadas on 3/22/2010 8:18:00 PM more reviews by hadas

Age: 30-35   Skin: Normal, Fair   Hair: Blond   Eyes: Blue    

In describing the scent itself, I would say that when I first applied it from the vial and sniffed, I immediately recoiled and got a momentary feeling like I might wretch, because it smelled sharp and fishy...like fish thats started to go bad. As Secretions Magnifiques dries down, I begin to smell citrus: a high pitched lemon that is also underscored by mildly sweet, creamy smell, almost like yellow cake batter (rather than baby batter. lol!). But lurking in the background is that discordant fish smell.



Slightly anti-climactic: no semen, no BO, no bunghole to speak of, although at times its strange accords might evoke the *association* of any or all of those things. Interestingly, this fragrance does dry down after a while to a very pleasant sweet, slightly masculine musk. I'd totally wear it if I could somehow eliminate the oceanic, fishy component of the first hour or so.

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